Category: Rest of Africa

The report explained that 196 men, 14 women and four children were killed, while 746 citizens were kidnapped during the period. The report presented to Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai revealed that Kaduna Central Senatorial District topped the list of casualties with 115 deaths. 

The forces of two rival generals fought intense street battles in Sudan's capital Khartoum on Friday, witnesses reported, as the warring parties ignored appeals for an end-of-Ramadhan ceasefire.

This week, a group of 15 international partners asked Somaliland leader to provide a definite calendar on elections, having delayed the polls for over five months now.

The violence erupted on Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Last minute calls coordinated between the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), the African Union and the United Nations had announced success: That the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) will halt fire to allow humanitarian access and evacuation of trapped civilians. But...

Thousands of residents fled from Sudan's capital where witnesses reported bodies in the streets and embassies said more than 270 civilians had been killed in battles between the army and paramilitaries by Thursday, with no end in sight.

South Africa, the continent's most industrialised country, is in the grip of an energy crisis that critics say is much deeper than the authorities openly acknowledge.

The leaders from member states Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Djibouti were expected to travel to Khartoum to prevail upon the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who have clashed since Saturday in Khartoum and Meroe cities in Sudan, to end...

Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Tuesday as fighting that has claimed nearly 200 lives entered a fourth day, despite growing international calls for an end to hostilities.

"A police unit showed up at the party's main headquarters in Tunis and ordered everyone there to leave before closing it," Riadh Chaibi said.